Posted on 03/20/2006 10:12:58 AM PST by Coastal
Mel Gibson's newest film will be titled Apocalypto and is billed as an action/adventure film set 600 years ago, prior to the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America.
IMDb gives a short description that details it as "where a man goes on a perilous journey to save his idyllic world."
And some of those that praised Gibson's epic "The Passion of the Christ" may take pause in how he describes this film by slamming the president.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...
Not too long ago Sir C. said bjc was the greatest president in his lifetime.
Geeezzzzz..... Come on people -- think.
Two things, this is a secondhand report that supposedly started at TIME Magazine! I could stop there but . . .
"According to 'Time Magazine' Gibson, who insists ideology matters less to him than stories of "penitential hardship" like his Oscar-winning Braveheart, gives this account:
That's a pretty hard dig at President Bush. Is he trying to stir up controversy to sell another film? Perhaps.
It worked so well with 'Passion' who can blame him."
Gibson didn't STIR UP controversy, he just responded to it. These people have an agenda.
If this is true, Mel is playing to what he thinks is his base.Sorry , but I love the Passion, but I won't go to see this movie. I disagree with Mel being on guard against another attack and what is going on in the middle east is being a fear monger then my loyality is with my President. Don't forget people like me, the Bush wackos, made him look very good in the eyes of a Hollywood that was ready to stone him two years ago. I think I take a pass on this one.I do not wish this film to fail , but he will not get my money for this one.
see, I try to follow hollywood as little as possible...
Sounds like he wants an Oscar. What better way to get one than to bash Bush?
Baloney. He conducted a very deliberate and I say cynical PR campaign to garner interest in that film. It was pure Hollywood.
In truth, we should be slamming him too, when slamming is warranted. Failing to close the borders, failing to bring spending back under control, failing to adequately communicate policy decisions (such as the ports fiasco) are examples. But this "fearmonger" nonsense is right out of the RAT playbook. Perhaps he's heard the lie so often he believes it, or perhaps the lamestream media has MISQUOTED him.
Huh????WTF??
He's alrady got one for Braveheart.
And others like the Arts...
What was the Oscar for? Best Theft of Richard III speech?
Have ya come to fight like free men!
Wrong. Mel is a known conservative to Holly Wood pukes. The "controversy" supposedly was that his movie blamed the Jews for Christ's death. He did NOT start that BS. For you to say so just further's the lie. If you are going to say crap like that you better be able to prove it.
So prove it.
That speech or parts of it, according to my tracking, has been used:
A Danny DeVito film
The USMC ad campaign
Braveheart
etc. etc.
Danged fine speech, but I prefer Richard's cynical manipulations.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.
So Mel has joined the pack and now President Bush is a "fearmonger" . . . .
Agree with you, auto. I don't like to be spooned pablum either. But I finally rented `Good Night and Good Luck', `cause I got an `A' in a graduate history course, "McCarthyism", a long time ago. I got the top A and hearty "Well done!" from the prof `cause I took the pablum, digested and regurgitated it--he had created a `mini-me'--only to find out years later that McCarthy was right (see: Venona Papers) and was smeared by Murrow. I made it about half way through GN,GL before clicking it off. (It was boring, too.)
Mel & family/brothers left us and moved to Australia in the late `60s because Pa Gibson didn't want his boys in Vietnam. My father fought there, two tours. Gibson returned when the dust settled to make a movie about what he wasn't prepared to actually do. (OK, he was just a kid; I believe the father was concerned about the older boys.)
Anyway, it's all Hollywood: If you don't like it, don't watch it.
So, the "Passion": one of the few movies I went to a theater to see, but won't buy now because I don't think the president is a "fear-monger". But that's just my choice.
Mel Gibson has never been a supporter of the war in Iraq. The one time I heard him mention it in an interview, he seemed to have bought the "no WMDs found" line, and this bothered him.
Mel Gibson has conservative values regarding family and faith; where his political leanings are I couldn't say.
I thought Gibson was a Conservative. It's a shame that my favorite male actor is a lib.
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